The Cafe

Aroma of cappuccino freshly brewed, tiptoes out with garbled verbiage of conversation scented in stale scones and cigarette smoke~ decadent platter of dark chocolate pastries, lures sugar-lorn eyes of gluttony...

Café au lait moments…

café au lait moments frothy, bittersweet and creamy flavored in variegated thoughts peppered in sugar granules blending with moody coffee spoonfuls ~are whispers of a carefree youth when thoughts hopscotched through redolent sunshine and rain-song laced rainbows, playing peek-a-boo through oriels of intrigue and adventure, casting dices in virgin oblivion to challenge uncertain fate, letting …

Caffeinated Moments…

cooling porcelain heels on moonlit contours of brooding, insomniac silences, it breathes aromatic syllables of caffeine promises- alluring lethargy with mirages of agility, an addicted tongue basks in bittersweet flavors, while the pulse races like a tired horse flogged into swiftness on wings of transient surge of whimsical adrenaline.

Amnesic Anecdotes Scented in Caffeine

(i) tongue scalded by an absent-minded sip I bit back both cry and curse, and gulped down brew both unsweetened and angry, aroma rising with steaming plumes to flavor a surreal moment gestating with tension and anticipation witnessed by demitasse fragilities, when two individuals talked nuptial affiliations over coffee~ trying to forge a relation between …

Thoughts Brewed in my Kitchen

tea leaves bleed aromatic synonyms in water as it bubbles to fill piquant anticipations in gaze of lethargic, mist-draped winters, poured into chiseled transparencies, insinuating russet delights of sweet apple cider. cookie crumbles voicing soft innuendoes of honeyed pleasures, unheeded by a tongue rolling in hurriedly munched bites tinged in caffeinated sips as preoccupations enshroud …

Remembering You Over Cappuccinos…

on moonlit winter nights when absurdities of chilled raindrops tapper on corrugated rooftops, as insistent knuckles fraying the linen of flimsy silence, on bittersweet demitasse nights. cold shivers tapestry my trembling solitudes in goosebumps, snuggled within fleece quilts of piquant cappuccino aromas peppered in sugar granule memories, I indulge in your reminiscences. cocoa giggles salted …

Coffee-Lorn Winter Morns…

gulping fluidity of photons like honeyed sips of cappuccinos, windows wipe away frosted drowsiness of bittersweet decaf nights, as snippets of lethargic winters slowly come alive draped under ambiguities of misty translucence— seemingly a scrambled version of an obsolete, faded rain-song. clad in routine tracksuits on mornings tasting like blueberries, he trudges along braving shivers~ …

Enceinte Caffeine Blues…

Tarpaulin sky - clad in faded denims taciturn with meager candy-floss helpings in sugar-lorn fingers, holds a gingerbread sun sprinkling honey with sticky fingertips. Shivering fingers- frostbitten, bone-chilled caress porcelain cheeks, imbibing warmth lent by brew sighing in aromatic sibilants to erase freckled frost from faces of sepia panes. Gingerly I sniff nostrils prejudiced by …

A Day At the Cafe…

sitting sipping caffeine laced warmth from Styrofoam cups filled in the machine's trickled faceless brew, my eyes rove, drinking in the scenes unfolding in snippets like a collage of live snapshots from a medley of lives meeting at another crossroad. a girl in polka dots and freckles her pigtails limp as her sagging spirits, sits …

Camaraderie

intimacy in abbreviated moments, huddled by racing clock's hands, with cracking eggshell of dawn and a rising yolk sun~ is shared over sips of freshly brewed coffee dusted with cocoa, and sinful bites of homemade choco-chip cookies~ baked in stolen minutes on sunday afternoons. bittersweet brew is gulped, its harshness softened by spoonful of honey …